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Yanoff HomePage!

What is New Yanoff?

New Yanoff is SonLight Software's
closed-source fork of the original Usenet (NNTP)
newsreader client for Palm OS PDAs, GPL Yanoff. With
New Yanoff, the premier portable newsreader™,
you can read your favorite internet newsgroups ANY TIME,
ANYWHERE. New Yanoff is the most
customizable, mature, and fully-featured Palm OS
newsreader available as well as a very capable, basic
SMTP email client. It consists of two different
programs: Yanoff+ or (free) Yanoff-.

What is Yanoff+?

Yanoff+ is the advanced version of
New Yanoff and is distributed and licensed as
"Trialware". That means that you can
download Yanoff+ and try it out free of charge for
15 days. After 15 days, the trial period will
expire and the program will revert into the same feature
set as (free) Yanoff-. When you purchase a Yanoff+ license,
you will receive a key that unlocks Yanoff+
restoring the original features if it has expired (plus a few features that are ONLY
available to registered users).
The key does nothing for Yanoff- as it is a
totally distinct executable which neither expires nor
unlocks.

What is Yanoff-?

Yanoff- is the scaled-down version
of New Yanoff that is totally free for personal
use. It is intended to be a useful substitute for Yanoff+
while serving as a constant demonstration and reminder as
to why everyone should purchase a license for Yanoff+
(this is sometimes called "Demoware"). As
you may already know, Yanoff has existed as free
software under GPL since 1999. We support
open-source software and, as part of our commitment to
the pre-existing user community, we intend to provide
this free version of New Yanoff alongside the
fully-featured Trialware version.

What about GPL Yanoff?

We have secured a license to the source code for GPL
Yanoff as it existed in 2003. This branch has become New
Yanoff. New Yanoff and the license which
allowed its creation in no way changes the status of GPL
Yanoff which hopefully will continue to be extended
by the open-source community. In the same manner that GPL
Yanoff is not entitled to any of the source code for New
Yanoff, we are not entitled to any of the source code
for any further changes to GPL Yanoff (unless the
authors explicitly grant it); the two software streams
are totally separate but will hopefully grow together in
a compatible manner, each sharpening the other. To that
end we have enjoyed (and intend to continue) providing
several bug fixes to the GPL Yanoff sources.
Read more about all this in the
User Manual.

A single-user, single-device license for Yanoff+
costs just US$24.00 and is distributed by email (or
HotSync when purchased from within Yanoff+ on your
PDA). Quantity discounts and site-licenses are also
available; please visit the Order
Page for complete details.

Downloads

Technical Support

When you purchase a Yanoff+ license, you also
obtain 1 full year of free email
support. Ad-hoc support for Yanoff- is
available only as our schedule and workload permit. All
users are encouraged to submit
a bug report via email at any time.